Tommy Herbert

he/him

[Ishbel McFarlane 🇵🇸 @IshbelMcF]

Me & Tamar Williams are leading this session on being artists & mothers, & trying-failing-succeeding to use minoritised languages with kids.

The contexts for Scots & Welsh are so similar & so different. So much power, grief, joy.

Come along a week on Friday - it's free! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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@rdouglasjohnson Vote by post?

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@sarahwishart @blobelwarming This is good!

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@Naomi_Turner @DRMacIver My daughter watches TV on one. Also I'm working on a project where one is attached to the wall of a cafe

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@sarahwishart How did it go?

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@rdouglasjohnson @Lollercake I just had another thought: if you're used to looking through not-quite-the-right-point-on-the-lense at your monitor, changing the shape or size of the lens might affect focus

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@rdouglasjohnson @Lollercake I know, it's really disconcerting

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Right now capitalism is doing a good job of keeping me in that golden segment of the productivity dial between fit to work and down to fuck

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@illustrationetc Love that one! Did he describe what he was doing with his mouth?

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Are you an Englishman who spent time at an Austrian ski resort in early 1980, solely as a way to be out of the UK for tax reasons? Is your name Pete or Steve? Trying to settle a long-running argument. Please RT

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@sarahwishart I'm only a couple of chapters into Here Again Now but it's wonderful

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@moribunddr Almost all the comments imply you have a duty to do something. Please only do something if you feel it would help you, and feel strong enough to do it. It's not on you to fix this man. If you want to change your number and forget about it, you have every right

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If you're having your first baby or another baby, if you're a professional writer or you've never even tried writing, sign up here. It's a lifeline and an inspiration.

[The New Mothers' Writing Circle @newmumswriting]

@CreativeScots @catrin_kemp_ Exciting! We will have space for 90 new mums in Glasgow - @AduraOnashile, @ThatKerryHudson, @IshbelMcF & Saima Sheikh will be some of the co-leads alongside @genherr and @catrin_kemp_ ✏️
Register your interest by going to the website: https://t.co/IXO3554qY0

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six-year-old boy I met at the park: pink and purple are for girls and the other colours are for boys
me: yeah but who made that rule
him: Jesus

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ways of seeing (continued):

geometry - find beautiful geometric patterns
immersive artwork - you're in a VR piece created by an artist
historian - find traces of the past
Buddhist - everyone and everything is connected; it's all part of you

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walking game in the tradition of @HJosephineGiles:

1) choose a way of seeing from the list below
2) go for a walk in the city
3) don't take pictures or write anything down

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ways of seeing:

visual artist - find things to draw/paint/photograph (don't do it; just look)
sound artist - same deal
engineer - notice what could be improved
invisible city - collect ideas for the ideal city

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After reading adventurously for a while, I want to return to my home territory. Any tips for a good recent UK novel, set in the here and now, without a gimmicky central narrative device?

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'There is no national monument to the victims and survivors of slavery in America' - The Whole Picture by @aaprocter